The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-01-06

at Chester Pa.
Insoluble residue or silica 2016
Protoxide manganese ..... 045
Phosphoric acid ...-...... 0OlS
Sulphur ...:.,-.,........-.... 0O43
/ Alumina ............ OF
Lime .-......4... S.92
Magnesia ................ 2.53
Carbonic acid, water and loss O6O
Magnetic oxide ofiron 62.51
Metallic iron ......... 1927
Phosphorus .-...-.... ............ U.OOo
These samples were taken when
the mines we're not fully opened, and
the ores containing considerable guam
titles extraneous, silicious matter Oh
the surface. The Cranberry Iron
Company, Philadelphia corporation,
have opened the eastern end OF this
great ore bed, and have in the last FIVE
years exploited some 1900 feet OF the
vein, and have proved the vein to be
fully 800 feetswide between the walls,
and have now in sight some 10000
900 tons OF ore. This Company have
been instrumental in building a mar
row-guage railroad from their mines
(34 niles to johnson City, on the
East Tennessee Railroad, and already
have more orders for ore than they
can fill until their mines are more full
ly opened. These orders are from the
furnaces at Roanoke, Va; Newport,
KY, and Chattanooga, where the
Roane Iron Company are just com
pleting fine Bessemer plant to pro-
duce ingots for their rail mill The
South Tredegar Nail Works, at Chat
tanooga, have the last summer put in
operation a small Bessemer converter
to make steel from these ores for their
nail plate. The steel made is superb,
and no ore makes better pig for Besse-
mer steel than these Cranberry ores.
Already have the furnacemen OF Chat
tanooga and Birmingham secured sec
1 tions Of these ores. The Citico Fur
mace Company and the Roane Iron
Company, of Chattanooga, and De
Bardeleben, of Birmingham, have
= purchased portions, Of this ore bed
L but these ores should not be carried
g 24S miles to the furnaces of Chattanoo-
= ga, nor 400 miles to the iron works OF
Birmingham. In Southwest Virginia
: some 20 miles north Of the Cranberry
= ores, are vast areas of excellent COX.
. ing coal, three veins of which lie above
: the drainage of the valleys, and one
" from 4 to Z feet thick, and the same
" coal fields contains two other beds o.
" excellent splint coal and one seam o
clean cannel coal, none Of which arr
= less than feet in thickness. A com
u pany Of Eastern capitalists, known al
u the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chica
g 60 Railroad Company. are building
'e railroad from Charleston, S. c., north
I" through that State, across North Car
'e olina, Tennessee, Virginia and Ken
~ lucky, cutting through the grea
'V Cranberry" ore veins, crossing 70
8 $50 miles the Virginia and Kentuck,
u, coal field, and striking the center 0
4, the Hanging Rock" iron region O
" the Ohio Valley, at Ashland KY, ol
y the Ohio River, where, and at Irontol
IA (on the north bank OF the 0hio) ar
ie now nine large modern furnaces, an,
~ in the same district, within 80 miles c
es Ashland, are 50 other furnaces max
H. ing in all A blast furnaces, now mair
Il ly supplied by coke from Connell,
g vile and ore from Lake Superior an
es Missouri. These furnaces are now pay
~ ing IS per ton for good ores from Micl
u igan and Missouri. but when this grea
e north and south line is complete
NC these latter but not richer, Cranberr
q ores can and will be laid down on til
= Ohio River at SIS per ton. The di
u tance from the iron mines is no grea
"S er than TO Chattanooga, viz, PAS mile
/" and the great coking coal fields {
al Kentucky and Virginia are betwee
," the furnaces and the ore beds and e,
i's tend continuously for a distance Of
~ miles north from the Cineh River,
? Virginia, over into Kentucky B,
= this Is not the way to make the ehea
h est Bessemer pig, In-the great vale
les OF East Tennessee, somewhere betwee